Your Parenting is Showing
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYour Parenting Is Showing: a podcast about what happens when your nice smooth professional front is upended by your parenting backstage, in pandemic-time. Where two so-called “experts” bring their friends on to talk about their own pandemic parenting wins and blunders.
Hosted by Rev. Molly Baskette and psychologist Dr. Ellen O’Donnell, co-authors of Bless This Mess: A Modern Guide to Faith and Parenting in a Chaotic World (Convergent, 2019)
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Episodes
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 8 - Brittany Walker Pettigrew
April 20, 2021 18:25 - 1 hour - 125 MBIn this episode we talk with social worker Brittany Walker Pettigrew. Brittany is a Black mom raising three Black children, two by birth and one by adoption, in Oakland, CA. Brittany had so much wisdom to share that this is a long one. You’re going to want to listen to the whole thing more than once so take it in snack size bites. In part one, we discuss why the value and weight of education is different for BIPOC kids than for White kids and what this means as we emerge into an almost-po...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 7 - Dr. Sarah Green
March 29, 2021 20:52 - 45 minutes - 94 MBOn this episode, we chatted all sorts of things with our dear friend Dr. Sarah Green. Sarah is a poet and professor of literature and creative writing at St. Cloud University in Minnesota. She is a stepmom of two great kids and a poetry mom to many more. The roots of this friendship go back to our days in Somerville, MA and you'll get plenty of Boston references. You'll also get to join us in a discussion of pandemic attention and creativity (or lack thereof), what we might keep and what we...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 7 - Dr. Sarah Greene
March 29, 2021 20:52 - 45 minutes - 94 MBOn this episode, we chatted all sorts of things with our dear far flung friend Dr. Sarah Greene. Sarah is a poet and professor of literature and creative writing at St. Cloud University in Minnesota. She is a stepmom of two great kids and a poetry mom to many more. The roots of this friendship go back to our days in Somerville, MA and you'll get plenty of Boston references. You'll also get to join us in a discussion of pandemic attention and creativity (or lack thereof), what we might keep a...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 6 - Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund
March 02, 2021 03:46 - 45 minutes - 83.4 MBThe Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund is an author, pastor and mental health advocate. She is also a good friend of Molly’s and, with a Masters in social work, brings a brilliant blend of both Ellen and Molly’s expertise. Sarah has a new book out Blessed Union: Breaking the Silence About Mental Illness and Marriage where she shares her own and others’ stories of marriages impacted by depression, anxiety, addiction..and now the stress of a global pandemic. All marriages are messy. If you are co-p...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 5 - Amelia Richardson Dress
February 24, 2021 01:57 - 35 minutes - 65.2 MBAmelia Richardson Dress is the author of The Hopeful Family: Raising Resilient Children in Uncertain Times. She writes about education, parenting and contemplative spirituality. Also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, she currently serves as the Minister for Community Faith Formation at First Congregational, United Church of Christ Longmont. She and her husband raise their daughter in a mixed-belief household in Colorado. Amelia joined us to talk about her new book and t...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 4 - Dr. Anne Fishel
February 02, 2021 18:58 - 40 minutes - 72.3 MBDr. Anne Fishel is a clinical psychologist, family and couples therapist, educator and author. Anne is co-founder of The Family Dinner Project, a nonprofit initiative started in 2010 that champions family dinner as an opportunity for family members to connect with each other through food, fun and conversation about things that matter. In this episode, Anne shares with us what she has learned through the pandemic about the power of family meals, the need to be flexible, and the beauty in im...
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 3 - Dr. Liz Pinsky
January 26, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 94.3 MBDr. Elizabeth Pinsky is a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, climate activist and mom of two. She is also Ellen’s colleague and friend and has an acerbic wit that almost makes you miss how wicked smaht she is. In August, Liz wrote a piece for the The Atlantic - We Flattened the Curve. Our Kids Belong in School in which she made the compelling case that getting kids back in school is a social justice issue that should transcend political schisms. In this episode, she shares her thoughts (and...
Your Parenting is Showing: Snacktime bonus episode with Quinn Caldwell
December 18, 2020 23:17 - 10 minutes - 16.1 MBWelcome to Your Parenting is Showing: Snacktime - A special little bonus episode of good stuff we just couldn’t cut. Here our guest Quinn Caldwell talks about having participated in a COVID trial, how it squared with his parenting and what he wanted his kids to learn from his decision. With a special appearance by Asa. And where Quinn expands on the discussion of goat mating in the original episode to talk a bit about cow blood.
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode 2 - Quinn Caldwell
December 18, 2020 17:42 - 40 minutes - 70.2 MBRev. Quinn Caldwell is currently a stay-at-home papa and theological reflector in upstate NY where he lives on a farm and raises fainting goats with his husband and two children. Prior to turning to full-time husbandry of all kinds, he was pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Syracuse NY and before that served at Old South Church in Boston. Quinn is a member (with Molly) of the UCC Still Speaking Writers Group and regular contributor to their Daily Devotionals series. He is also autho...
Your Parenting is Showing: First Official Episode
December 13, 2020 17:28 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBIn this episode we share with each other our own pandemic parenting blunders and worries and, as we tend to do, offer each other a bit of a grace.
Your Parenting is Showing: Episode .5 Introductions and Disclaimers
December 13, 2020 16:49 - 5 minutes - 11.1 MBWelcome to Your Parenting Is Showing: A podcast about what happens when your nice smooth professional front is upended by your parenting backstage, in pandemic-time. Here we introduce ourselves and lay a few ground rules for episodes to come.